My mom told me last night that my uncles best friend from college just got put on a vent for the Kung Flu. It actually made me sadder knowing that, because I’ve heard the vent just makes it worse and kills people. Here’s hoping he survives anyways though...
A friend of mine on another (non-political) forum just lost his siste to the WuFlu. She was put on a ventilator promptly after entering the hospital around Thanksgiving. Being on a vent of course meant that she was kept under sedation. That was the last I heard from him until he told us this morning that she had passed.
I will always wonder if it was actually the vent that killed her.
My sister-in-law is a nurse and told us not to go on the ventilator. We have low vent use here in Utah and low death rate... We actually have one of the lowest death rates and people are still freaking out
Interesting... here when someone reaches the ICU, they are the worst of the worst of the population (i.e. 1% of the population) in terms of being able to fight off COVID, their oxygen levels get too low, their blood sometimes clots, therefore doctors/nurses have no option than to paralyze and throw them on a ventilator. Pretty much once on a ventilator, their chances of survival begin to slim. Many do not come back off of the vent and live. When on ventilator they often times have good days and even to the point that it seems they might be able to come off the vent, and then boom, out of nowhere they are doing horrible again. Eventually the docs say there is nothing else that they can do, they pull the vent, and the person dies. It's tragic and I am mind blown that there isn't a better option than ventilator. My mom had COVID recently and stayed home with it, but she did have a couple of days where she thought she had chest/throat/breathing tightness, but her oxygen levels were fine and she took Ativan to relax and she said it alleviated the tightness (may of just been anxiety?).
Also have been told of cases where COVID is severely affecting the brain causing heavy psychological issues. My brother had COVID and said he had terrible brain fog and anxiety for over a month. ICU here has many cases of patients being very foggy and confused. Now I am even getting reports from nurses claiming that COVID disrupts your bleeding and clotting feedback loops so severely that patients who had COVID months ago (and we're never hospitalized for an extended period of time) are now getting massive strokes from their bodies not having enough time to recover. Either COVID is an insanely complex and confusing virus (bio-weapon), or our healthcare/science industry is just lost and blaming COVID-19 for everything they see.
I've also got a relative (who is very rich) that got COVID recently and had healthcare come out to her home within the first 7 days of diagnosis and got the monoclonal antibody injections. She is in her 50s, very unhealthy, and she barely noticed any side affects from COVID. Her mother is in her 80s, multiple comorbidities, also got COVID, and she had her also get the antibody injection and she as well barely noticed any symptoms of COVID and got over it quickly.
u/BasedMedicalDoctor I'd love to get your take on what you are seeing/hearing in the field, if you don't mind. This whole thing is very very confusing.
I think about 9 months ago she said a lot of the people were worse off due to the staff not knowing how to use them properly. Hopefully it's better now. I would definitely not want a ventilator after what I've seen. I think she also said they'll give you a lot of extra drugs while you're on it which means more money for them and more stress on your body.
Fucking vents killed more people than the actual virus.
Know a guy in his 70s in Michigan. Got COVID and the hospital had him on a vent within 2 days. Blew his fucking lungs out, carrying oxygen now.
My mom told me last night that my uncles best friend from college just got put on a vent for the Kung Flu. It actually made me sadder knowing that, because I’ve heard the vent just makes it worse and kills people. Here’s hoping he survives anyways though...
A friend of mine on another (non-political) forum just lost his siste to the WuFlu. She was put on a ventilator promptly after entering the hospital around Thanksgiving. Being on a vent of course meant that she was kept under sedation. That was the last I heard from him until he told us this morning that she had passed.
I will always wonder if it was actually the vent that killed her.
My sister-in-law is a nurse and told us not to go on the ventilator. We have low vent use here in Utah and low death rate... We actually have one of the lowest death rates and people are still freaking out
Interesting... here when someone reaches the ICU, they are the worst of the worst of the population (i.e. 1% of the population) in terms of being able to fight off COVID, their oxygen levels get too low, their blood sometimes clots, therefore doctors/nurses have no option than to paralyze and throw them on a ventilator. Pretty much once on a ventilator, their chances of survival begin to slim. Many do not come back off of the vent and live. When on ventilator they often times have good days and even to the point that it seems they might be able to come off the vent, and then boom, out of nowhere they are doing horrible again. Eventually the docs say there is nothing else that they can do, they pull the vent, and the person dies. It's tragic and I am mind blown that there isn't a better option than ventilator. My mom had COVID recently and stayed home with it, but she did have a couple of days where she thought she had chest/throat/breathing tightness, but her oxygen levels were fine and she took Ativan to relax and she said it alleviated the tightness (may of just been anxiety?).
Also have been told of cases where COVID is severely affecting the brain causing heavy psychological issues. My brother had COVID and said he had terrible brain fog and anxiety for over a month. ICU here has many cases of patients being very foggy and confused. Now I am even getting reports from nurses claiming that COVID disrupts your bleeding and clotting feedback loops so severely that patients who had COVID months ago (and we're never hospitalized for an extended period of time) are now getting massive strokes from their bodies not having enough time to recover. Either COVID is an insanely complex and confusing virus (bio-weapon), or our healthcare/science industry is just lost and blaming COVID-19 for everything they see.
I've also got a relative (who is very rich) that got COVID recently and had healthcare come out to her home within the first 7 days of diagnosis and got the monoclonal antibody injections. She is in her 50s, very unhealthy, and she barely noticed any side affects from COVID. Her mother is in her 80s, multiple comorbidities, also got COVID, and she had her also get the antibody injection and she as well barely noticed any symptoms of COVID and got over it quickly.
u/BasedMedicalDoctor I'd love to get your take on what you are seeing/hearing in the field, if you don't mind. This whole thing is very very confusing.
I think about 9 months ago she said a lot of the people were worse off due to the staff not knowing how to use them properly. Hopefully it's better now. I would definitely not want a ventilator after what I've seen. I think she also said they'll give you a lot of extra drugs while you're on it which means more money for them and more stress on your body.
Well majority of the population only needs to tough it out for a few days then they should be back to normal.
We'll when all the nurses and doctors watch cnn religiously to tell them what drugs to use that's what happens
For what it's worth, I hope for his speedy recovery.
Thanks I hope so too
Yeah...China told us vents would save us, based on their experience. Fuck China.